Finale 2012: How to add line below a text

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Post by Inside Out » Sun Jan 22, 2017 11:47 am

Hello everybody.
Please write me what I must do to draw line below the text precisely beside the text.
From some reason Finale 2012 hasn't write line in measures 121 and 122 in second stuff but in other measures does.

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Post by miker » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:09 pm

You aren't getting the word extension because the space is too short where you just have two notes.

You can try moving the lyric a little to the left with the selection tool, moving the second notes a little to the right with the beat spacing tool, or draw them manually with the Lyric Tool>Edit Word Extensions.
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Post by motet » Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:31 am

Isn't that standard when a syllable spans several notes?

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Post by miker » Wed Feb 01, 2017 2:32 am

Yes. Lower staff, mm 120-121, there should be an extender because the lyric spans two tied eighth notes. If they were quarter notes instead, no extension would he needed.
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Post by zuill » Wed Feb 01, 2017 2:57 am

Regardless of the values, or whether tied or slurred, the word extension is proper and common. The trigger is the key. Spreading the notes out would give the extension, I'm sure. If we could see the Finale file, we could experiment and possibly suggest a solution.

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Post by motet » Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:36 am

Ronald J Brown wrote:
motet wrote:Yes, but we are talking about single 1/8th notes--the final very short staccato notes in the given passage.
I have a feeling the O.P. meant mm. 120-121, not 121-122.

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Post by BuonTempi » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:24 pm

1. You've assigned the syllables to the Layer 2 notes, which are offset to the right. As a result, there is less space to add the extension.

2. You can decrease the minimum length of an extension in Document Option > Lyrics > Word Extensions > Minimum Length. This will allow shorter extension lines.

3. Turn on Consolidate Rests in Document Options > Layers to join the rests in both layers.

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Post by miker » Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:02 pm

In barbershop, an offset lyric like that would be shifted to align with the chord, rather than the note. Just doing that might give you the word extension.
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